knows, a permanent executive director that we have that continuity. it is my honor to nominate commissioner john avalos as chair before you. is there a second? seconded by commissioner weiner. any other nominations for chair? seeing none, why don't we open it up to public comment. any member of other public like to speak on this nomination or election please come forward. >> again, every year we give an opportunity to one of you supervisors, to represent our city. i would like to offer a suggestion.

the focus on the seniors. i even attended a meeting in our district with ms. abner james, so you know i am doing due diligence. she happens to be the chair the senior commission. the seniors in our city need some extra help when it comes to transportation. simple things like even getting a clipper card; notices have been sent; when the seniors go to [indiscernible] wait in line, sent to 27a, assigned again to

11s to find out that is where they can get a clipper cart. little things like that. you may think this comes under the jurisdiction of the mta; it comes under the jurisdiction of all supervisors so they represent seniors fairly. i hope in general of having a strategy to improve traffic flow now that you will attend to that. i will be attending some of the meetings, not all of the meetings. to remind you again again what is best for our city. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other member of the public alike to speak on this item? so please come forward. >> good morning, my name is peter cohen, with the council

committee organizations -- look forward to work with this body this year. look forward to working with him and the rest of you all. we have seen the transportation issues increasingly are embedded in the much broader and more complex set of issues around community and economic development; it has pulled affordable housing into the conversation more often than not and i think it is important that we start to move towards a dialogue around transportation, whether it's infrastructure, ridership, the future of the system that thinks holistically about the communities being served in the relationship to jobs, housing. i think this is if you will a more contemporary frame. at the regional level we have been quite active. the conversation of how to do "smart growth" is still right,

not a recipe off the shelf. doing also equitable transportation development is also a puzzle. this body continues to be a leader in helping to figure out that puzzle without necessarily having all the answers. we continue to be ahead of the curve; this bodies an excellent place, san francisco is an excellent laboratory; from the affordable housing standpoint we look forward to working with you all and the new chair. >> thank you. commissioner cohen? >> good morning everyone. i want to make a couple of comments. i represent many of the southeast neighborhoods. i have an acute in detailed understanding of the shortcomings of the cities

transportation for structure. i am a member of the regional board governs caltrain. in determining the future of the regions transportation agencies, i want to talk about the imperative things that the next chair will have the sole responsibility of seeing - of being a steward to get it done recognizing the inequities that have existed in our transportation expenditures. i want to make sure our need is lined -- our resources i lined up where our needs are. working with ntc and bart, to make sure that we are planning on the modernization of the regional transit lines and looking for smart ways to expand transportation

in our city. it is important to leverage the local sales tax dollars to complement and support of the city funded infrastructure investment coming from voter approved initiatives such as the street bond that we all i think worked on. working in tandem with mta to deliver pedestrian safety, traffic calming and other improvements faster and more efficiently and very fair and process to select our executive director. i believe that commissioner avalos will be able to handily take the wheel and help us usher and addresses key issues that i've outlined today. thank you. >> thank you commissioner, before i turn to commissioner wiener, i want to ask if there is any other member of the public who like to say something else

on this item? public comment on this is closed. commissioner wiener. >>i'm happy to support commissioner avalos as chair. sometimes something to get lost in the debates is that even though we have areas of disagreement but often get a lot of attention, a lot of press coverage because anytime you have a big dispute at city hall that is likely to get the attention, in reality when it comes to transportation policy in the city, the vast majority of what we do and what we need is completely not controversial when working together on getting high speed rail, transit, that we get adequate funding from muni,

improving pedestrian safety, bicycle roads, we have broad consensus. i know that our chair campos, we are proof in the pudding, we have had our disagreements. as chair and vice chair of ta in the past year, we have worked together incredibly closely, almost always having a common voice, fighting together whether regional or within the city. even though supervisor avalos and i don't always agree on everything i will be able to have that same kind of relationship and working collaboratively to move together the broad goal

of making the city truly transit first, and improving transit throughout the region. i look forward to working with you together. >> i appreciate the fact that is vice chair you have worked hard to make sure that we have a common ground. and some of the differences on a couple of issues don't get in the way of the work that needs to be done. i appreciate that and i appreciate the work that not only you do but also your staff. commissioner mar. >> thank you chair campos. i want to say that avalos as chair will continue love the great work that our current chair campos has led, making sure that there is equity in how we distribute the transportation resources, and having strong inclusive processes that involve the communities that we serve and transit policies. are also want to say that his background as a social worker

and community organizer really has a key role in his ability to lead from the bottom up. that public comment made earlier by mr. -- also by mr. cohen, looking at other issues such as aging, mobility in isolation become issues with transit. also the transit oriented development and the work that we're doing at the mtc level, make sure we have enough resources to create -- some call them smart development, i call them equitable development. also the tremendous leadership by josé luis moscovich -- we'll missing quite a bit. commissioner avalso will help us look for the best possible executive director.

mr. moscovich brought incredible staff at the mta so there is already incredible leadership. i am strongly supportive of avalos as chari. >> thank you commissioner. commissioner kim. >> i'm happy to support supervisor avalos for the position of chairmanship. it is something that he has been enthused about. i think the ta is an important piece of what we do here at city hall. i think transportation whether we talk about pet safety, cars, muni and public transit continues to be one of the preeminent issues that we talk about here

at city hall and some of the things that i hope we are able to push forward % i appreciate supervisor cohen's comment about city neighborhoods they don't have as much resources. it is great to have a chair that represent one of the areas of the southeast sector that doesn't have great access to muni and public transit; we should figure out how to create more equity among public transit. the second issue is, that supposed to be transit first, where we build less parking spaces and meter all streets to make sure people are not parking in the street; we have to provide them public transit as well and cannot say that t line is enough. and also to bayview and hunters point. as we encourage people to move to these

transit first neighborhoods and don't allow them to have cars that we are also able to address how they are able to access public transit as well. the last pieces that i think over the last year i found very interesting, and i think this is been a long threaded conversation here at city hall that we also have a debate about our investment in infrastructure versus our investment services and access to people most tolerable in our city. as we move forward, i hope that we can think about it way to balance both approaches here in the city and that we don't blame one of the other for the reason for not getting this or that. i thought that was % and stand with that conversation came from % but going forward we have to figure out a way to balance those and understand the importance of them. although we have restricted and limited funds, that we are able to get a sense of how investing in those

services, investing in our vulnerable communities, is in some way supporting our public infrastructure but there is a balance so that we can keep whole system going. >> thank you commissioner. commissioner carmen chu. >> a want to thank and highligh supervisor avalos comments; in addition to efforts made underway in the central corridor, the subway, big projects good for the city and for the region, but we also need to think about the folks left out whenever we see a muni bus turnaround for the last up, or services that don't connect people. i also noted having seen

supervisor avalos work of the budget and seeing how much he cares for the neighborhood and how you connect, it will be a focus this year so i want to thank you for that. >> on the motion nominating commissioner john avalos, if we could have a roll call. >> avalos, aye, campos, aye, chu, aye, cohen, aye, farrell, aye. kim, aye. mar, aye. weiener, aye. the motion carries. >> motion passes.

congratulations commissioner. the gavel is yours. >> thank you commissioner campos and thank you colleagues for your support; i take to heart a lot of the comments he made about but you see this body should be doing and what the chair should be doing. those are things that i've been talking about for a long time. the word equity said almost by everyone; i see the power of his body is to make sure to create a better equity about how we build our infrastructure in san francisco. all of those who live and work here rely on our transportation system to get us to our job, to school, to

make sure we have access to all of the services that we need and this body is going to be critical to make that happen. i am excited about carrying out the tradition of outgoing chair campos about looking at the neighborhoods, to make sure we have a neighborhood focus, to our deliberations, and i want to make sure we continue with the presentations on the neighborhoods by district here in this committee but also working with each of you individually to hear your concerns and how we can make sure that this body can be responsible. i've spoken with commissioner chu a number of times about how the outer neighborhoods often don't get their fair share. these are issues that are

examples of things happening in my district as well; district like district 10, parts of san francisco far from the downtown corridor. we are seeing a lot of development resources going to places where development is happening in greater numbers that we can actually use this body to fill in the blanks, neighborhoods not getting that key support. that is what i want to be able to work on as chair of this body. i want to make sure we have a real critical decision coming before us this year, the permanent executive director for the transportation authority and i want to have a very inclusive process of his body to make sure that we can actually have the best the most talented person comment to carry out the staff of this organization. thank you and i really appreciate your support. having said that,

i want to make a nomination for the vice chair. i want to nominate the current vice chair scott wiener to serve another term as vice chair of the transportation authority. there is no other person on our body who has committed so much time and effort to transportation and transit in the past couple of years as commissioner wiener has; the voice he has a multiple levels weather here, or on the county board of supervisors, all the people involved in building the transportation infrastructure he is key. i want to make sure she continues to have a strong voice on that body; of the forward to working with you, i want to make sure you know for me that i support you.

as vice chair i look forward if you're elected to collaborating with you and getting your input on the decisions of this body. >> seconded by commissioner campos. are there any other nominations? seeing none -- we had public comment on the actual chair. let's open it up on the vice chair position, any member of the public like to comment. >> as you all know, this is a transit first city. i'm getting mixed signals from some of you all, when you really don't want to focus on our senior population. that is a population in san

francisco specially that participated in the various wars. at one time unbeknownst to you, if you were a veteran you could ride free in san francisco. many of you are not paying attention to the demographics. if in the southeast sector we have 10 million dollars coming down the pipeline and you guys have no clue as to who really deserves to be helped, then something is really missing. again and again we will come here. and tell you that we lack affordable housing. but maybe what has not been make year to you folks who

represent our 11 district is that on the watch of some of you all, thousands and thousands of rental units have vanished. it's for you to figure it out. i read an article about it. i am going to support scott wiener to be a vice chair because the chair has said that he finds something in him, experience, and together they could work for the betterment of our city. again pay attention to the demographics. thank you very much. >> any other members of the public who would like to comment? seeing none we will close public comment. (gavel) since we don't have any other nominations why don't we move to a roll call vote.

>> on the motion on electing commissioner scott wiener vice chair. (roll call) the motion to elect commissioner scott wiener as vice chair carries. (applause) >> congratulations. >> thank you colleagues. >> fantastic. let's go on to our next item. >> number six, award an 18 month contract to cambridge systems, and authorizing the executive director to negotiate nonmaterial contract terms and conditions. action item. >> this open this item for

public comments. seeing none, we'll close public comment. (gavel) roll call vote. >> avalos, aye. breed, aye. campos, aye chu, aye, cohen, aye. farrel, aye. kim, aye. wiener, aye. item passes. let's go on to the next item. >> out oppositions on state legislation. action item. >> any public comment? seeing none come forward.

public comment close. same house, same call. item passes. next item. >> adopt position on state legislation. >> same house, same call. item passes. item number nine. >> allocate $1,189,818 in prop k funds, with conditions to the san francisco municipal transportation agency. (reading from agenda) and the man the relevant

five year prioritization program. >> public comment is open. seeing none, we close public comment. again colleagues, same house and call. item passes. next item. >> adopt the 2012 and a report. we have a presentation from maria lombardo. >> thank you and congratulations to the chair and vice chair. you have before you draft a new report, a powerpoint presentation that will not take as long as it looks. before i dive into it, many of your previous remarks have shortened is already. i will go quickly but don't hesitate to interrupt me.

the report we have two sets of requirements; statutory requirements that require each year to report the progress of the programs under the prop k expenditure plans. we also have in the requirements from the vehicles expenditure plan that requires a similar annual reporting, but no deadline attached to it. this report satisfies both requirements also provides an overview of the funds over which this body has jurisdiction whether we allocate them directly, or in the role of management of congestion. -- the report before you is

divided into sections that will mirror more or less how we are organized, it makes sense for presenting what we have accomplished this past year. the presentation is organized just like the report in terms of funds, planning activities and capital projects and project oversight followed by a quick bit of information in finance and administration. i want to call your attention to this timeline. jose luis as he was packing his boxes came up with this creative plan. as he said if you look at the top of almost every column, there is a policy study or a plan that this board has adopted over funding action that has over the years really been the catalyst

for the other city agencies, the regional transit operators who will primarily be the lamenting agencies to go on and deliver projects and programs to take on innovative policies and programs. we as an independent agency have had the ability and the kurds to go ahead and push the envelope on a lot of ideas, harder the more established institutions to deal with. while the authority could not accomplish their job without this agencies, is in no small part to the leadership of the board. if you want to add something, dive in.